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What is the blood vessel in your rabbits nail called?
The quick.
What is a common disease in rabbits that infects the respiratory tract? Some symptoms include runny nose and eyes, difficulty breathing, and coughing and sneezing. x2 points for scientific name.
Pasteurellosis, or snuffles.
What is the largest breed of rabbit?
Continental giant, however the flemish giant is a close second.
Identification and left.
How old was the oldest rabbit ever?
Almost 19! The oldest rabbit ever was a wild rabbit named Flopsy, who was caught on the 6 August 1964, and died 18 years and 10.75 months later at the home of L.B. Walker of Longford, Tasmania, Australia.
Name 2 different fur patterns. Not solid or broken.
Broken, otter, solid, tortoiseshell, harlequin, agouti, bi/tricolour, chinchilla, himalayan, dutch, spot, badger, merle, roan, silvering.
What does RHD stand for? Bonus points if you can say the symptoms/what it causes.
Rabbit hemorrhagic disease. Fever, inappetance, lethargy, muscle spasms, breathing difficulties, blue colored lips, or bleeding from the mouth and nose. Causes organ failiure, death.
This is the number of breeds ARBA currently recognizes
52
What is mange and ear canker?
Fur mites and ear mites, two common faults in rabbit judging.
How many kits were in the worlds largest recorded litter?
The largest recorded rabbit litter is 24, born to two New Zealand rabbits.
Name 3 different possible colours of a rabbit. Excluding black and white.
Chocolate, lilac, agouti, blue, fawn, sable, cinnamon, marten, tan, steel, champagne.
What is GI (gastrointestinal) stasis?
When a rabbit stops eating, the normal bacteria that ferment and digest food in the GI tract can be overtaken by overgrowth of painful, gas and/or toxin-producing bacteria. Symptoms include, no appetite, constipated, bloated, diarrhea, lower body temp.
Name 4 lop eared breeds
English lop, French lop, mini lop, holland lop, American fuzzy lop
What is an important part of a lop rabbits head called?
The crown. This excludes english lops.
What is the highest jump on record?
The world record for the highest rabbit jump is 99.5 cm (3.25 ft) and was achieved by Mimrelunds Tösen (The Lassie of Quivering Grove) who was owned by Tine Hygom (Denmark) in Herning, Denmark on 28 June 1997.
How many ribs does a rabbit have?
24
What is the real name for sore hocks?
Pododermatitis
What is the smallest breed of rabbit?
Columbia basin pygmy. Not only the smallest, but also one of the rarest.
What are two common disqualifications that a judge might find in a rabbit?
Deformities, signs of illness, over or underweight, cloudy eyes, ear or fur mites.
What is the record for most amount of tricks in 1 minute?
The most tricks performed by a rabbit in one minute is 20
What is palpation?
A technique used to determine if a rabbit is pregnant after successful mating.
What is encephalitozoon cuniculi? AKA E. Cuniculi.
E. cuniculi is a pathogen, in this case a fungi, that mainly affects the nervous system and kidneys. Symptoms include back leg weakness and paralysis is a result of the swelling surrounding the E. cuniculi causing destruction of the nervous tissue. Other signs commonly seen with this disease include a head tilt, fitting; loss of balance, tremors, kidney failure and bladder weakness.
Can you name 2/5 rabbit body types?
Commercial, Semi-arched, full-arched, compact, cylindrical.
When youre judging a rabbit what kind of words do you want to use?
Comparative, -ER words. Thicker, longer, wider, smoother, etc.
How big was the worlds largest rabbit?
The world's largest rabbit is Darius, a Flemish Giant rabbit that weighs 49 lb (22 kg) and measures 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in).